Upgrade My PC Please! Episode 1: The First 5

[Sitebee]

Voted, good luck Hamwar.

How do I put forward my aging rig for future considerations???

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

CPU
AMD FX-8350

RAM
16.0GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (10-10-10-27)

Motherboard
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

Graphics
VE247 (1920x1080@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (EVGA)

Storage
447GB SanDisk Ultra II 480GB (SSD)
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARX-00N0YB0
2794GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166

Optical Drives
PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209D

Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

[Haydz]

The link for entry is in the description of the video on the first page of this thread mate.

 

[Crissyfox]

So many people are gonna put their computer in for this contest that people prolly have a better chance of being hit by a hot air balloon full of cats.

 

[thegamefox]

First good luck to all contenders! cant enter yet since im not in the country region yet..still can atleast vote and interact with the forum

 

[thegamefox]

So many people are gonna put their computer in for this contest that people prolly have a better chance of being hit by a hot air balloon full of cats.

true..thats common on giveaways.. ppl that dont need one come for the grabs and the ones that need it just fall out of it.but thats the way it goes I guess..we might have but its never enough is it?

 

[thegamefox]

Voted, good luck Hamwar.

on the first page! when you entered it takes you there anyway.. altho your pc is still fine..yea its an fx but no need for a rush upgrade yet

 

[Clem82]

Dakota's PC gets my vote for the upgrade. It is the most sensible in terms of "getting one up and about", the 6300 definitely needs replacing.

 

[Crissyfox]

Dakota's PC gets my vote for the upgrade. It is the most sensible in terms of "getting one up and about", the 6300 definitely needs replacing.

lol definitely.

 

[thegamefox]

lol definitely.

if the fx needs replacing..then what can I say wile I have a phenom? XD

 

[Crissyfox]

if the fx needs replacing..then what can I say wile I have a phenom? XD

sad thing is, their FX is newer than my qx6700 by like 5 years

 

[thegamefox]

sad thing is, their FX is newer than my qx6700 by like 5 years

haha true.. well atleast you got 4cores..im in a similar state. I got an phenom II X4 955..so yea I know the pain XD and funny thing fx are kinda "sh!t" but they where what killed phenoms

 

[Crissyfox]

haha true.. well atleast you got 4cores..im in a similar state. I got an phenom II X4 955..so yea I know the pain XD and funny thing fx are kinda "sh!t" but they where what killed phenoms

yea the 4 cores is the only reason I can play any games right now, even if its just mid-high at 20-30fps

 

[thegamefox]

yea the 4 cores is the only reason I can play any games right now, even if its just mid-high at 20-30fps

yea the 4 cores is the only reason I can play any games right now, even if its just mid-high at 20-30fps

well thats not to bad.. due to my gpu can run low 20-30 fps and mid 20 fps max.. plus the lack of ram...games with less than 4 gigs just doesn't cut it

 

[CapnKitten]

Daktota's Shadow Silver. Good luck!

 

[trgz]

Great idea - and I might get an idea as to how to upgrade mine in the process (even if I don't get shortlisted)

 

[Arris]

What I find appalling though is people voting to upgrade a case that I would never consider purchasing because I don't have the money to consider it. It is hard to think of them worthy, when I can plainly see they are capable of the upgrade themselves.

How can you see they are capable of the upgrade themselves? Purely based on the quality of other components used? Maybe they scrimped and saved everything they could to be able to afford the build. Maybe they don't spend money in other areas of their lives that others do. Those entering don't provide a financial portfolio and details of their household income with their submission so other than a superficial evaluation of which is most "worthy" there is not enough information to truly pick the one most deserving. Perhaps wording the competition voting as "most deserving" isn't the best choice. Remove "deserving" and just have "the system you'd most like to see upgraded"?

 

[demien88]

Gl to all of you. I hope that Fx will get an upgrade

 

[thegamefox]

I agree what your saying to a point though, you basically suggested to every build a new mobo/cpu/ram combo at witch thats pretty much building core of a new PC

But all in all put in my vote good luck to the contenders

what steve means is if its way to old like p4 or a core2 or so...so nothing really can be saved cuz the case will have bad airflow the psu will be old and under powered, the hdd is slow and so on..so your basically building a new one. the pcs voted can upgrade like keep case,hdd,psu,gpu. ditch mobo,ram and so on

 

[sudowudo]

Hey Old Boy here thought I'd let yous know I went ahead and bit the bullet on the ATX Mobo (Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3) for the i5-2500k, I'll be updating my PC entry with more pics when it comes

 

[SingularitE]

Correct me if I'm wrong but <any PC> gets hammered by compute intensive work like rendering, finite element based stress/deformation/thermal simulation etc.
For that reason there is a market for workstations that is very well and kicking using platform as the new Threadripper and Core i9/Xeon.

 

[Crissyfox]

well thats not to bad.. due to my gpu can run low 20-30 fps and mid 20 fps max.. plus the lack of ram...games with less than 4 gigs just doesn't cut it

oh man my main system os HD just started dying today XD

 

[reiko na6ase]

Thanks for all the votes everyone! It's a close race and it's getting suspenseful! This has been a treat to watch and be apart of - no matter who wins. I am happy to see some people out there into music production that understand the struggle my FX6300 has >-< - Dakota

 

[thegamefox]

oh man my main system os HD just started dying today XD

thats kinda bad XD let me guess..wd blue?

 

[thegamefox]

Thanks for all the votes everyone! It's a close race and it's getting suspenseful! This has been a treat to watch and be apart of - no matter who wins. I am happy to see some people out there into music production that understand the struggle my FX6300 has >-< - Dakota

yup I get your struggle..since im in to music prod and gaming too(phenom ii 955) so yea I feel you..
spoiler: I voted yours

 

[thegamefox]

Correct me if I'm wrong but <any PC> gets hammered by compute intensive work like rendering, finite element based stress/deformation/thermal simulation etc.
For that reason there is a market for workstations that is very well and kicking using platform as the new Threadripper and Core i9/Xeon.

that is not that true.. you dont need a threadriper for rendering/video editing.. if you look it up you will see that lots of ppl use ryzen 5/7 (and down to 3) to render an have no problems(you can also ask steve) threadriper just has more pci lanes,quad channel ram(8 dimms) and has a little more for multitasking (gaming wile rendering and downloading stuff etc)